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DENAFRIPS DAC ---- Owner Impressions, Feedback, General Discussion, Questions and more....

Thread for OWNER IMPRESSIONS, FEEDBACK, QUESTIONS, ETC. regarding DENAFRIPS DACs.

DENAFRIPS lists the following R2R DACs:

Ares, Pontus, Venus, and Terminator (in increasing price order).

"DENAFRIPS incorporated in year 2012, focus in developing high end audio equipment at a very affordable price. Throughout the years of intense Research & Development, and continuous improvement of the product lines, DENAFRIPS had finally settled with the current product range equipped with R-2R ladder DAC technology. The reason behind this is the designer strongly believe that R-2R DAC is the best way to reproduce music.

The name, DENAFRIPS, stand for:

D-ynamic
E-xquisite
N-atural
A-ttractive
F-idelity
R-efined
I-ntoxicating
P-ure
S-ophisticated

This mean a lot and it is the house-sound of all DENAFRIPS products." [Copied From Denafrips About Us section]
david_ten
drrnc2
30 posts
 
milpai & georgehifi---interesting comments. I have found pretty much the opposite--the better the DAC (or perhaps any link in the chain) the better the marginal recording sounds. I am now listening to the Denafrips Venus, and compared to my previous DAC, the MHDT Stockholm 2, I find more detail, much better sound stage, more dynamics, a slight loss of warmth. My general sense is that the more your system can "get out of the way", that is, the less noise your components add to the stream, the better the recording sounds. Overall, I think that playback gear is catching up to digital recording and allowing a more representative image of whats on the disc. Just my $.02

Rich
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trelja
3,224 posts
 
@drrnc2 I have found pretty much the opposite--the better the DAC (or perhaps any link in the chain) the better the marginal recording sounds.

Well said, Rich.  During our get togethers at Vinh's that assertion held up.  We listened to recordings of differing quality, and in every case, the better conduit sounded better.

@jayctoy You made a wise move with the Ares.  Along the lines of the 4 products lining up so closely, the sub $700 one is the absolute no-brainer, and most obvious choice.  One gives up very little, even to the Terminator.  Of course, the chassis and overall aesthetic step forward as one moves up the ladder, if one considers those attributes critical 
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bluewolf
66 posts
 
Thanks David aka @david_ten for this thread. For my review of the mighty Terminator fed by the Jay's Audio CDT-3 MK2 CD transport please see:

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/denafrips-terminator-jay-s-audio-cdt-3-mk2-a-review

And my speaker system features a Lightspeed Attenuator. Thank you George aka @georgehifi !

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